From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:13:17 +0300 Message-ID: <833a991sf6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hyp3by2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r5wvdw57.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246911220 1672 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2009 20:13:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 06 22:13:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNuZ8-0005yx-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:13:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuZ7-0002s3-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuZ0-0002q6-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuYz-0002pC-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49232 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuYz-0002p0-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:19764) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNuYw-0004hA-Rc; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KMD00300MSM0T00@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:13:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.41]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KMD009BPMU4JEE0@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:13:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r5wvdw57.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112104 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:47:32 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org > > As has been pointed out, message-mode has more features than mail-mode. Yes. And Gnus has much more features than Rmail. So what? We all do agree that much more features means more complexity in setting things up. Why impose that on people who are happy with simple modes? > Even if we wanted to bring mail-mode up to par No one suggested that. > that would turn it into something just as complex, or more (since, > as you noted, message-mode already relies on other libraries to much > of its functionality). Encoding a file uses only core Emacs features (base64-encode-region), so no libraries should be involved.